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 RADCLIFFE. 149 enlargement of the building of University College, Oxford ; 40,000Z. for the building of a library at Oxford ; and when the library should be built, 1 150Z. per annum to the librarian, and 100/. per I annum, for ever, for buying books. After the ! payment of these bequests, and some legacies to I various individuals mentioned in the will, he gave to his executors, in trust, all his estates in Buck- inghamshire, Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, and Surrey, to be applied to such charitable purposes as they all, in their discretion, should think best ; but no part thereof to their own use or benefit*. Besides the Radcliffe Library, which was finished and opened in 1749, the Observatory and jmblic Infirmary at Oxford were built from these funds, the faithful and enlightened guardians of which have ever been found ready to contribute, ac- cording to their means, to every charitable and useful purpose. In 1825, they gave 2000/. to- wards building the present College of Physicians ; and, towards defraying the expenses of the erection and completion of the Oxford Lunatic Asylum, opened in 1827, they subscribed by four donations, at different periods of that work, the sum of 2700/. — the ends and purposes of which establishment seemed to accord with, and bear an affinity to, those of the Radcliffe Infirmary. cipal Secretary of State, Sir George Beaumont, Bart., Thomas Sclater, of Gray's Inn, Esq., and Anthony Keck, of Fleet-street, Gentleman. The present trustees are, Lord Sidmouth, Mr. Cart- wright, M.P. for Northamptonshire, Mr. Ashurst, M.P. for Oxford- shire, Sir Robert Peel, and Mr. Charles Bathurst. When any vacancy occurs, it is filled up by the remaining trustees electing another.
 * The first trustees were the Right Hon. William Bromley, Prin-